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Whenever Possible, Combine Western and Traditional Medicine
When a patient’s cultural practices, such as traditional healing, are incorporated into the treatment plan, it can go a long way toward ensuring that patients follow the plan of care.
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Base Your Plan of Care On the Individual’s Beliefs and Practices
If case managers want their discharge plans to succeed, they should take the time to really understand their patients.
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Cultural Competency Is Essential in an Increasingly Diverse Society
If case managers don’t learn about their patients’ cultural beliefs and practices and incorporate them into the plan of care, their efforts to develop a trusting relationship with their patients and create a successful discharge plan may be in vain.
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OIG Spells Out How to Provide Transport, Goods Without Penalty
The revised transportation rule provides safe harbor for free or discounted local transportation services provided to “established patients” by “eligible entities.”
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Are Lengthier Interviews on Readmission Worth the Time?
Some hospitals are implementing more in-depth patient interviews on readmission, seeking to collect more and better data that can help identify quality issues that might be addressed. But do the results justify the investment?
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Will New Healthcare Regulations Go into Effect — Or Be Shelved?
President Donald Trump’s executive order of Jan. 30, 2017, has created a great deal of uncertainty for healthcare organizations and a major challenge for the FDA.
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Health System Defines Chief Advance Directives
The Frederick Regional Health System in Frederick, MD, has created an advance care planning educational program for people and providers in the community.
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Advance Care Planning Education is Invaluable for Case Management Patients
Advance care planning education can provide patients and their families with valuable information for making decisions about patients’ care at times of health crisis, or end of life.
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With GWEP, Health Network Keeps High-risk Elderly Healthier
The nation’s elderly population is growing at a rate of 10,000 people per day, and the healthcare industry will have difficulty handling their medical needs optimally without more clinicians trained in geriatric care.
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How to Improve the Quality of Case Management Departments through Staffing, Part 2
This month, we will discuss some new and creative ways to use the staffing within a case management department.